S19 Ep28: Alcatraz Ghost Story: Roy Gardner’s Amazing Train Robberies, Escapes, & Lifelong Love W/ Brian Stannard

True Crime Tuesday presents:  Alcatraz Ghost Story: Roy Gardner's Amazing Train Robberies, Escapes, & Lifelong Love with Author/Researcher, Brian Stannard!

Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood––except his own––as he cut a felonious path across the western United States!  Once imprisoned for the long term in federal prisons, including Alcatraz, the most notorious prison's second-most-notorious inmate won over some unlikely champions. Both Gardner's wife, Dollie, and a police officer who once arrested him launched extensive campaigns for Gardner's release on the vaudeville circuit, claiming a brain operation would cure his lawless ways. Was Gardner a good man who made bad decisions as the victim of injury and circumstance? Or was his charming personality merely the poker face of a scoundrel?

Author Brian Stannard joins TCT to talk about the character and life of Roy Gardner, his lifelong love with Dollie, the allure to crime, and why it all fell apart in the end for Roy!

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PLUS: AN ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITJH BOB DENNIS!!!

Check out Bob's podcast "Urban Legends, Stranger Truths":  https://www.darknessradioshow.com/p/urban-legends-stranger-truths-with-bob-dennis/

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